Rover 75 Airbag warning light
 

Hi all
I bought my Rover 75 last Christmas and love it. It came with a few warning lights on which I have solved, but the airbag warning light is the one that has me beaten. The car has not been in an accident to my knowledge, any suggestions would be great.:shrug:

check the wire connections under the drivers seat. dont atempt anything until the engine is switched off,then waite 10/15 mins just fiddle with the connection pushing them together with a bit of luck it could solve the problem, thats what a friend of mine did with my car.silent polcemen, poor road serfaces can all help to loosen the connections.

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You may find the last post of this thread of interest.... ideally though you need a T4 session to pinpoint the exact issue.

Same happened to me, The red srs light illuminated and wouldnt clear. I simply applied substantial pressure to all the covers (including the rear seat backs) problem solved. Could have been a coincidence but no light showing now

If movement and pressing the connections together under both front seats fails to resolve the issue,remove the airbag fuse and leave twenty minutes,this resets the airbag module

There are two connecotr blocks under each front seat. Any one of them can cause the airbag warning. There are obviously several other potential causes, but the under seat connectors cause 99% of this fault.

TC

Airbag light
 

Many thanks Raymond and all other guys,'so simple' checked all connections under seat and would you believe it - the light went out !!!:}

This happened to me a few weeks ago, nothing loose under the seat. Checked the fuse (No. 18 fuse in passenger side fuse box), fuse looked OK but changed it and light went out and stayed out. Tried this on a w reg 75 belonging to club member with light on the other night, no good, light stayed on. This seems to be a continuing problem with the cars, is it to do with cars getting older?

Bear in mind the connections can look and feel secure but there's a design fault which means that sometimes they still aren't connected properly. Some people have replaced the connectors with different ones to solve the issue, and some have even soldered the connections instead. Failing that... some have solved the issue by replacing the airbag ECU, but that's really an expensive last resort... as has been said, 99% of the time it's the connections.

I too have an airbag light on my dashboard. The previous owner said it was a loose connection under the driver's seat. Sure enough I looked and I can see the female end of a connection block with about 5 pins and a yellow and a black wire going into it. I cannot for the life of me find the male end of this connection block !!! It is towards the inside of the seat and is about 1cm wide and black in colour ?

Many thanks

Kel

That sounds more like a spare connector for electric heated / memory seats than the Airbag connector. Hopefully someone will confirm soon. :D

EDIT* This thread may help to identify it, check the picture in the first post.

ALL SRS wiring is colour coded with bright yellow connectors .
HTH
Brian ;)

Thank you- will try the other connectors

Srs
 

Hi mate I have this prob as we'll
When you say remove the fuse is this with the ignition on or off
I have a 2001 2.0 v6 run perfect apart from this light
Thanks rod

Ignition off.

If airbag light comes on and under-seat connections are ok, the next most common failure I believe is the side impact sensors which are under the carpet directly beneath the rear of each front seat towards the side of the vehicle. Especially suspect if they have got wet due to water ingress (plenum/sunroof/etc).

If so, probably worth a T4 session to help find which side has failed as seat has to come out to get access.

K

If the airbag light goes on and off at varying intervals, then it will be underseat connectors.

If it stays on permanently it will be side impact sensors or a dead ECU / reluctor ring!

Mine ended up on permanently, turned out to be a duff driver's seat belt pre-tensioner.

T4 is the way to go, takes all the guesswork and frustration out of it.

After you're clean bill of health last week Andy, Ed's has come on a couple of times briefly since, so I guess that I'm under the seats again on the next half decent day! :(

Thanks all, yep the old 'loose connection' fixed it a treat - at least temp

JT

Thank you! Yup, this did it for me. Under passenger side seat. Which is right side in continental Europe.